India, Nov. 19 -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, may have found a way to stop the growth of polycystic kidney disease (PKD). This disease leads to the formation of fluid-filled sacs in kidneys. These sacs then continue to grow in numbers, leading to the failure of the organ and the requirement for dialysis.

Now, research funded by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense and published in the Cell Reports Medicine journal looks at how the growth of this disease can be thwarted. The News Medical Life Sciences website published an article looking at the study.

"The cysts just keep growing endlessly. And we want to stop them. So we need to get a drug into these cysts that will make them...